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by aquark 15y ago
But imagine motivations this could introduce: you can spend more money if you stall the economy !
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by aquark 15y ago
I think the best bit of the story is when she goes back to the police a second time, and _they_ try to keep the laptop: > After filing the second police report, an officer told her he would have to keep the computer as > evidence,
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by aquark 15y ago
Sounds fascinating. Seems like there is an inefficiency in the system somewhere though -- if downtime is so expensive why are they not paying better trained people to be mechanics? At $10K\hour a skilled mechanic/engineer would only have t
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by aquark 15y ago
I think this would be a good idea -- though keeping a lid on the feature creep would be a challenge. OTOH it wouldn't help everyone: my grandmother treats anything electronic as 'too complicated' without even trying at this point, though t
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by aquark 15y ago
True -- the green lock itself wouldn't help here. I was thinking more along the lines of code signing certificates. When I visited by bank's web site and drill into the certificate details I can at least establish that someone my browser v
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by aquark 15y ago
Technically how should he know jquery.com is more trusted than jquery.it? jquery.com does NOT appear to have a fully valid SSL certificate: Chrome gives me "the site's security certificate is not trusted!" Like it or not, Google is an impor
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by aquark 15y ago
I'm not sure it follows that reading the password down the phone is a bad idea ... unless you are calling because you have forgotten it! My bank has a separate passphrase that I have to use on the phone and I call them rarely enough that re
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by aquark 15y ago
Agreed -- 100% code coverage is impressive, but only means you are testing the code you've written. What about all the cases you forgot about. By definition you forgot about the tests too. What about all the interactions between module A &
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by aquark 15y ago
Fortunately with a desk that goes up and down that is an easy one to fix ... someone just needs to do a study of the ideal proportion time and frequency for changing between sitting and standing.
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by aquark 15y ago
I ran my (slightly profitable) side project on mono and ASP.NET MVC2 for about 5 months before switching to a Windows server on EC2. Best thing I ever did ... sure it costs 3x what I was paying for a VPS, but it has been rock solid compared
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by aquark 15y ago
I can think of use cases for wanting a quick simple, easy to configure http server. I can think of use cases for wanting to be able to serve >1,000 requests a second. I can't think of any that fall into both categories ... am I just lac
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by aquark 15y ago
Do you tip before the meal then, or is this based on being a repeat customer?
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by aquark 15y ago
OK, but can you detect in the spaceship when Q2 collapses? (I know no quantum physics beyond a few articles0 If so why can't you simply modulate the signal on top of a series of collapsing entangled pairs. Basically morse code with the tim
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by aquark 15y ago
And use wide masking tape over each cube as you are done so that when you (or the cat or the kids) knock it the screws don't disappear into invisible cracks in the floor.
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by aquark 15y ago
> If everyone did this, it wouldn't work. It would just raise the noise level. Actually I think it would continue to work rather well -- it is a lot easier to judge based on this style of resume than a plain piece of paper with bullet p
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by aquark 15y ago
If there are multiple start-ups being accepted at once into the incubator, and if the terms are identical then maybe you can pool resources to talk to a lawyer and amortize the cost.
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by aquark 15y ago
Agreed -- but that worked much better when I could buy a 13% savings bond (late 80's) than showing my kids the <$1 month interest payment they get now. I realize that inflation may well have eaten into that 13% hugely but as a pre/early
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by aquark 15y ago
But what happens in the case where there is no author element? With normal javascript you would get an exception .. hopefully with this you just get back undefined without having to check every step in the path.
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by aquark 15y ago
In a similar boat I was initially using a free template from templateworld.com which I hacked into what I wanted. I recently ditched that and switched to using blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ ) as a framework. There isn't an overa
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by aquark 15y ago
Do debit cards typically incur the same fees as credit cards? I thought many places here (Canada) accepted debit but not credit because it was a fixed fee per transaction not a %
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by aquark 15y ago
Would the 'Trust' button really work any better than the 'Friend' concept? It would just get devalued due to 'inflation' in the same way that people has 800+ 'friends' on Facebook. What message does not clicking the 'trust' button for frien
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by aquark 15y ago
So the P/E ratio is currently about 398 (optimistically) assuming they earned $2M for each of the last 4 quarters. Guess that isn't a useful metric for valuing 'social' companies! Anyone know what Google or Amazon's P/E ratio was when they
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by aquark 15y ago
Agreed - I recently started using LastPass based on various recommendations around the web. Knowing they are paying this much attention to things increases my confidence rather than decreasing it.
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by aquark 15y ago
Just 3 ... problem is between banks, CC and brokerage accounts I have at least a dozen accounts which are 'financial' in nature. I wish there was a way of securing all of them with the same secondary authentication token.
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by aquark 15y ago
I like the pricing model, but the receive work flow just doesn't seem practical -- people sending incoming faxes have to include a special barcode?? Am I missing something?
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by aquark 15y ago
Looks like an interesting concept, but the video comes up tiny for me and there doesn't seem to be a way of resizing it. The full screen button doesn't work (Chrome 12, Windows 7). Any way to provide a demo or at least some screenshots in
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by aquark 15y ago
Sounds kinda cool, but unless I'm totally missing it there isn't a demo available of what this actually looks like on a site. I appreciate it is free, but attempting to create one asked for my email address at which point I'm not even sure
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by aquark 15y ago
Something in the $4.99 a month range would be a no-brainer. Going forward I'd see the most important features to add as: * some simple text formatting: bold, italics, bullet points. * clickable URLs (opening in a new tab) * a way to cycle
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by aquark 15y ago
I've tried various to-do managers, notes apps, etc over the years. Everything from Google tasks to 37 signals stuff, Remember the Milk, etc, etc. Nothing has stuck for me. Until this. Don't know what it is about it, perhaps the free form
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by aquark 15y ago
I always thought part of the reason for the switch from gallons to litres was that the price in gallons was getting too high. Now we need to switch from litres to decilitres! Wonder if this would ever drive a similar change in the States.

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